CARE president, U.S. senator to receive top alumni honors

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Two graduates of Princeton's Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs who have dedicated
their careers to public service have been selected as the 2003 recipients
of the University's top honors for alumni.

Peter Bell, president of CARE USA, and William Frist, U.S. senator
from Tennessee, will receive their awards and deliver addresses on
campus during Alumni Day activities on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Bell, who earned his MPA in international affairs from Princeton
in 1964, will receive the James Madison Medal. Named for the fourth
president of the United States and the person many consider Princeton's
first graduate student, the medal was established by the Association
of Princeton Graduate Alumni and is given each year to an alumnus
or alumna of the Graduate School who has had a distinguished career,
advanced the cause of graduate education or achieved an outstanding
record of public service.

Frist, who specialized in health care policy and earned his A.B.
from Princeton in 1974, has been chosen for the Woodrow Wilson Award.
The honor is bestowed annually upon an undergraduate alumnus or alumna
whose career embodies the call to duty in Wilson's famous speech,
"Princeton in the Nation's Service." Also a Princeton graduate, Wilson
served as president of the University and as president of the United
States.

On Alumni Day, Bell will present a lecture titled "Where the End
of Poverty Begins" at 9:15 a.m.

Frist will speak on "The Floor of the U.S. Senate as the Operating
Theater: Is Transplanting Ideas Any Different From Transplanting Hearts?"
at 10:30 a.m.

Both lectures will be in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall.

Madison Medalist

Bell is a well-known leader in global philanthropic and humanitarian
endeavors. For the past seven years, he has been president of CARE,
one of the world's largest private international relief and development
organizations. He is credited with expanding the scope of the organization
from providing immediate relief to focusing on the root causes of
poverty. CARE has become a force in sustainable development and emergency
aid, reaching tens of millions of people each year in more than 60
countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Before becoming president of CARE, Bell had been a member of the
organization's board of directors for seven years, the last five as
its chair. He served as president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
from 1986 through 1995, working in that position to improve conditions
for the poor and disadvantaged in the United States. He has been senior
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, held
senior positions at the Ford Foundation and served as president of
the Inter-American Foundation, where he supported grassroots development
in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Bell served in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, overseeing the
program for Indochinese refugee resettlement. He was deputy undersecretary
of the department in 1979.

Bell's volunteer positions include being co-chair of the Inter-American
Dialogue, trustee of the Bernard Van Leer Group Foundation and trustee
of the World Peace Foundation. He formerly was a director of Human
Rights Watch and chair of both the board of trustees of the Refugee
Policy Group and the advisory council of the Woodrow Wilson School.
The author of "Fulfilling the Public Trust: Ten Ways to Help Nonprofit
Boards Maintain Accountability," he also has written articles on international
affairs for major newspapers. His undergraduate degree is from Yale.

Wilson Award winner

After graduating from Princeton, Frist earned his M.D. degree from
Harvard and went on to become a heart and lung transplant surgeon.
In 1986, he joined the teaching faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, where he founded and subsequently directed the multidisciplinary
Vanderbilt Transplant Center. Under his leadership, the center became
internationally renowned for multi-organ transplantation. He has performed
more than 150 transplant procedures.

Frist was elected to the Senate in 1994, becoming the first practicing
physician elected to the governing body since 1928. In 2000, he was
elected to a second term in the Senate by the largest margin ever
received by a candidate for statewide election in the history of Tennessee.
Frist currently serves on the budget, foreign relations, and health,
education, labor and pensions committees, and is the ranking member
on both the Subcommittee on Public Health and the Subcommittee on
African Affairs. In 1999 he was named a deputy whip of the Senate;
in 2000 he was tapped to head the National Republican Senatorial Committee;
and in 2001 he was named one of two Congressional representatives
to the United Nations General Assembly.

Frist has written more than 100 articles, chapters and abstracts
on medical research and four books: "When Every Moment Counts: What
You Need to Know About Bioterrorism From the Senate's Only Doctor,"
a comprehensive guide to dealing with the realistic threat of bioterrorism
published earlier this year; "Transplant," which examines the social
and ethical issues of transplantation and organ donation; "Grand Rounds
in Transplantation," which he wrote with J.H. Helderman; and "Tennessee
Senators, 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change,"
which he wrote with Lee Annis.

Frist is a former member of Princeton's board of trustees. The University's
Frist Campus Center, dedicated in 2000, is named for the senator's
family, several of whom are Princeton graduates.